sorry but i had to bring up an old thread regarding funny storys. in the u.k we have a a tv programme called little britain and there is a woman on it who works in an office who is a total biatch who always says ' computer says no'. i don't find it that funny but at a recent balck belt grading i was on the grading panel one of the black stripes grading was the absolute double of the character and they were so serious it took all of our self control to keep it professional. she passed by the way but it was quite surreal having a t.v lookalike at one of our gradings.

Thanks for the revival Mullin - I've never seen this topic before and I've been having a good old giggle :)

Forgive the repeat of a blog for anyone who read it but a couple of weeks ago, our assistant instructor took class while our sabunim was on honeymoon and when she shouted the word 'coffeetime' we had to run to the back of the hall, do 10 press ups, run to one side do 10 situps and then 10 squat thrusts on the other before returning to wahetever we were doing at the time...

Near the end of class, getting tired, the shout goes up again. Ran to the back of the hall, went down into pressup position while still moving.... realise floor is slipperier than I thought as my feet just kept going, followed by my hands and I smacked down on the floor face first. I looked like a cartoon character on ice.

My hopes no-one had seen vanished with the sounds of the rest of the class quietly giggling on my right... along with the asst instructor.

A while back during a sparring session, I was teamed up with the instructor's youngest daughter, she was abotu 6 I think and barely came up to my stomach.  She had that look of fear on face like I was going to squash her.  Her mom came up and told to stay towards the inside and through punches till the cows come home.  It worked, she stayed towards the inside and I could get any strikes in.  It was funny because she actually cause me to retreat and ran me out of the ring.  It's a funny sight to see a girl is maybe 50 pounds chase a 300 pound guy out of the ring.  Then after the match she said that she was a jaugar with the claw out motion and roar and I laughed so hard I started to cry.